Shrink a Picture for a Pendant

This was not hard at all to do. So here’s a quick tutorial on how to shrink a picture using Photoshop Elements – this is for the Elements newbie, so if you know your way around the program you know that you don’t need this post.

First a quick shout-out to Photoshop Elements – I recently bought version 7 on Ebay for $30 – that’s a minimal price to pay for great editing software. I love “actions” which are things you can download to automatically give your pictures a certain look (let me know and I can do a post on what they are more specifically) and I don’t feel at all that I need the full-version grown-up Photoshop – Elements is meeting all my needs and I’m sure it can do lots more that I don’t even know about.

So open up Elements and the picture you want to use. Tweak your colors to how you want them. Then crop your picture to a square – to do this click the crop tool and then there will be a drop-down box where you can choose 5×5 – that’s a square (equal sides, equal angles – you know). Then drag the box over your picture to how you want it.

After you have you have a square picture click on “Image” and you’ll get a drop-down box where you can click “Resize” and you’ll get another drop-down box to click “Image Size”

Where it says “Document Size” change width and height to 1 and make sure it says “inches” (if not there’s a drop-down menu where you can choose inches).

Voila, a 1x1inch image. I opened a Word Document and copy and pasted a bunch of 1 inch pictures all on to one sheet and just printed them off on regular paper. It worked great.

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Mandy is a craft blogger who loves to blog and enjoys all things crafty, sewing, and DIY - she feels that if she can do something, you can too, and provides tutorials to help you along the way. She loves being a mom to 4 awesome kiddos and blogs from the Kansas City Area.

Good question on the laser vs. inkjet – I made sure to print on a laser just in case. My laser printer is only black and white, so I just loaded my Word Doc onto a jump drive and took it into OfficeMax and they printed it off in color using their laser jet for less than $1. I haven’t tried an inkjet so I don’t know about the smear factor.

Enjoyed the tutorial, I’m a semi newbie on Photoshop, I too have PSElements7. I don’t know about actions so I would definintly be interested in a tutorial on that. Maybe I use it and just don’t know what I’m doing? I’m self taught.

I make glass tile necklaces and earrings. I have been wanting to do photo ones for two moms that have lost their children. My conflict was getting a photo the right size to fit in and still look good. How did you get this to work with printing it yourself? I was worried that the paper glaze would smear the ink. Thanks!

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